If you
want the next 12 months to be different than the past 12 months, look at your
habits.
Changing a habit, especially a bad one, is among the most
powerful forces you can employ to make your life and business better.
Here are 12 habits many of us repeatedly struggle with. If you
recognize yourself in any of these, you really need to get rid of them--and
this time next year, you could be free of the consequences they cause.
1. Stop giving up.
Success in life and in business comes when you simply refuse to
give up--because failure doesn't come from falling down, failure comes from
giving up.
2. Stop letting everyone else
make decisions for you.
If you want to be successful, never allow anyone to tell you
what's good for you. You're the one who knows what you need and what works for
you. So stick to what you know and do what you know is right.
3. Stop thinking you're on your
own.
Success is not an individual undertaking. Be smart and brave enough
to ask for help when you need it and allow others to help you along the way.
4. Stop chasing after those who
don't want to be caught.
Don't waste time on people and projects that aren't going to
happen. The right people, the right project, the right venture, the right idea
will show up with hard work and patience and when it does you want to be
prepared.
5. Stop discrediting yourself
for everything you aren't.
Sometimes we focus on what we aren't--that we don't see who we
really are. Respect yourself enough to know that you deserve the very best. The
strongest factor of success is self esteem, believing you can do it, believing
you deserve it, believing you will get it.
6. Stop focusing on the
negative.
Success comes when we stop focusing on what's against us and we
start focusing on what's good for us. Every day may not be good, but there is
something good in every day. Our positive thinking gives a positive attitude.
That doesn't mean always expecting everything great to happen, but accepting
whatever happens to us, to make the best of it.
7. Stop being hard on yourself.
Everyone makes mistakes, but that doesn't mean we have to pay
for them for the rest of our lives. Sometimes smart and successful people make
bad choices. It doesn't mean they are not smart, and they can't be successful;
it just means they are human.
8. Stop mulling over the past.
It's hard to see the future when you're always looking back. Use
the past only as a road map to help guide you toward your future. Practice this
every day of every month this year.
9. Stop running from problems.
Everyone has problems. What's important is to stop running from
them. Own them and deal with them, however overwhelming they may be--because if
you don't face them, they will own you.
10. Stop expecting life to be
easy.
Nothing worthwhile is ever easy, and the most rewarding aspects
of life are the things we fight the hardest for.
11. Stop holding on to things
you need to let go.
Many people think that letting go means giving up--but in fact
it means accepting that there are things in life that are not working out. When
you let go of them, you help clear the road toward success.
12. Stop giving up on who you
are meant to be.
If you want to be successful, you have to stop settling. Spend
every single minute of every single day working toward who you are meant to be;
it will not happen on its own. Start working toward your purpose.
From: Lolly Daskal
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